Boris Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Alright guys, to all of you having that problem with the 'Still waiting for boot device' message, here's the answer. I installed Darwin natively on my IDE drive. It all went OK. So I rebooted and everything worked OK, then I did this tar xpvf mactelbase.tar -C / That replaced some of the Darwin system files.. Including some files at /System/Library/Extensions after I rebooted, I got that annoying message 'still waiting for root device'.. So my conclusion was that my the OSX system was overwriting some bad files, probably the ATA drivers, or something like that. So what I did was this: 1. mount the OSX hfs volume and moved the extension contents to some directory. modprobe hfsplusmount -t hfsplus /dev/hdx1 /mnt/blah cd /mnt/blah/System/Library/Extensions/ mkdir /home/user/blah mv * /home/user/blah 2. Grab the Darwin install CD and copy all the /System/Library/Extensions dir to /mnt/blah/System/Library/Extensions mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdx /mnt/cdromcd /mnt/cdrom/System/Library/Extensions cp -r * /mnt/blah/System/Library/Extensions 3. Moved the rest of the Extensions that the OSX install is missing (?) cd /home/user/blahcp -r * /mnt/blah/System/Library/Extensions Alright, and that's what I did.. Now OSX actually boots.. there is a problem thought.. I am presented with a Console Login prompt instead of the GUI. Any ideas?: http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=osx16td.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebmue Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 AFAIK the mactelbase.tar does not contain all needed files to start the GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alireza_a Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 ok ,guys, I had the same problem last night and I was s frustrated, I started playing with IDE Configuration in BIOS and when I changed the IDE Type to P-ATA , then it worked and I booted to OSX. The speed is ok , (even after removing TPM Kext ) OSX doesnt recognize my LAN , graphic card. I am using Pentium D 2.80 Ghz Asus p5ld2 - 945 Intel Chipset , SSE3 , SSE2 Hope it would be helpful to somebody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanskin Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 for the login, try booting witht he -s flag and doing the steps for chaning the password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanskin Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I tried the method of copying the files over, but when I do the mv command I get a lot of BS about cannot remove: filenameshere. Read-only Filesystem. Any ideas how to get past that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanskin Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanskin Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I got the files copied over, but it didn't fix my problem. I still get the same error at the same place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanskin Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Any updates/progress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majordomo Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I'm also stuck at the console login screen. The deadmoo/bovinity password is not being accepted. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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